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To: sandeep who wrote (43528)	4/26/2000 4:02:00 PM
From: David R	Respond to of 74651

RE: Wordperfect, Lotus Neither one even had a Mac version until very late. That is why they had such a time moving to windows. It is a piece of work trying to port a dos based app to WIndows. Mac and Windows were both CMT message based GUI OS with similar design. Excel was designed for the Mac. In the old days, Excel required Windows runtime (2.0 I think). It was the first PC based Windows app. Nearly two years before Windows 3.0. Excel was way ahead of its time. MS Word for Windows had a common code base with MS Word for Mac. Bill Gates definitely had vision to see the Mac platform for its potential. MSFT was one of the early Mac app developers. What an irony that it was the Mac apps that allowed MSFT to win the PC app market. If WP AND Lotus had built a Mac version early on,they would have been in the Windows world when it took off. Then they never would have lost their market position. Or at least, they would not have handed it it MSFT on a golden platter.